Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-26
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The Oity Board of Education will meet
this evening.
Albert Gallatin has disposed of his beau
! tiful residence property al Sixteenth and II
streets to Joseph Steilcns.
! There were so many sports - operating
in this city during the fair that very few
of them made enough to pay expenses.
The cattle exhibited at the State Fair by
| Senator Stanford were last evening for
warded to Reno, to be exhibited at the
/ Nevada State Fair.
| Fifteen carloads of passengers arrived
from the East by yesterday mornings ex-
press train, and twenty-five carloads will
arrive this morning.
Colonel Guthrie drew the prize sofa
given away by Mr.. Campbell at the State
Fair, and for which the drawing took place
on Saturday evening.
The Odd Fellows General Relief Com
mittee and their invited guests had a very
pleasant excursion to Feather river on the
steamer Thomas Dwyer yesterday.
Special police officer James Coffee was
taken to the hospital Friday evening, suf-
fering from erysipelas, and it is reported
that he has since become paraiyzed.
There was q large attendance at the NJ.
Z. Church South yesterday and last even
ing, when Rev. H. C. Christian delivered
the farewell sermons of his four-years'
passionate.
There are messages at the Western
Union Telegraph office for VIM. William
son, r. B. West, A. a. Sutton, Theodore
Schwamb, Tom Bragg, G. W. Hubbard.
Mrs. D. A Coleman.
Chinaman named Cow Money was ar
rested Saturday evening for an assault with
deadly weapon, he having drawn a large
KNIFE upon another celestial with whom he
was having dispute,
J. Hi1z. of Woodland, while rolling ten
pins last Friday, ran large silver from the
floor of the bowling alley under the nail of
one of his fingers, tearing the nail off and
intiicting very painful injury.
Nearly all of the band of Indians that
participated in the race at Agricultural
Park last Saturday left for Stockton yester-
day morning on horseback or in wagons.
leaving only few to go by rail
The Knights of Sherwood Forest, and
Courts Sacramento and Suffer- a. o. F.,
will this evening visit Court Capital, to
hear a lecture by DR.. Wizard. After the
lecture refreshments will be served
Fong Ching, alias Little Pete the Jury
hilp was tdhtll " Dan
from the Folsom Prison recently, to serve
as witness, was brought up from the Bav
Saturday night on his way back to that
institution.
Early Saturday morning there was
lively time at Fifth and | streets, when the
Chinese "Masons" concluded their devil
driving ceremonies by burning some of the
large bamboo figures that ornamented the
temple during the week.
The passenger and freight depots were
exceedingly busy places yesterday, owing
to the crowds of people leaving the city by
the various trains, and the vast quantity of
stock that was being shipped to the Stock
ton and Reno fairs, and other places.
The average Signal Service temperature
on Saturday was 700; being 40 warmer
than the normal for that day. The highest
and lowest temperature was $50 and 53o,
with gentle and variable winds, mostly
southerly, and clear weather. The average
temperature yesterday was 75o, being 90
warmer than the normal for that day The
highest and lowest temperature was 90
and $50, with gentle and variable winds.
mostly southerly, and weather clear.
The terms for which Thomas Mankin
and James Sullivan were sentenced to the
County Jail expired on Saturday, and they
stable Frank Swift for misdemeanor in es-
Gaping from tie chain gang while it was
working at the County Hospital August
Goth. Their escape was not success, as
the officers in charge of the gang soon re-
captured them. Swift took them before
Justice Devine, who set the cases for hear
ing next Wednesday at 10 o'clock. They
have demanded jury trials.
Saturday evening about s O'Clock man
who was riding in a wagon on Seventh
street, near NJ, drove into the trench dug
in the center of the street in order to get
at the gas or water main, and his horse
was in few seconds lying on his back at
the bottom of the excavation, which was
seven or eight feet deep. The driver, a
man named Haley, was unhurt, and the
wagon was not disabled. Haley probably
saw the light at the end of the ditch, but
had forgotten ii by the time he started to
cross over. A large crowd soon collected
20 assist in getting the horse out, but the
animal would not attempt to help himself,
and it was two hours before he was extri-
Gated, not much the worse for his fall.